MW2 Minimum Requirements posted

Well I just checked the official forum and one of the staff has posted the minimum requirements.

We must have missed this yesterday during the hysteria! Those that have come backs from the picket lines might be interested in reading this:

OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better
DirectX: Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB of free hard drive space
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Internet: Broadband connection required for Multiplayer Connectivity. Internet Connection required for activation

Pretty much like the previous game. Not too high which is good!!

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Of couse they don't want it too high. That way they can make more money. Same goes for WoW. k0r3aN_pR1d3

yes and? Since when is this a bad thing

Those are shockingly low given the visual quality of the game. I want to buy your game Activision, I really do, it looks like you've done a good job... but why are you making it so hard for me by doing stupid things? If they seriously want this game to do well on the PC, they have 2 options:

1. Put back dedicated servers

2. Pull all support for COD4 and force people to play this game instead

Since 2 is downright lunacy and would never work, I think the majority of people with gripes about the game will just continue to play COD4, it's still immensely popular (#2 on Xfire behind WoW.. and not by much)

"If they seriously want this game to do well on the PC"

well the game is preaty much topping all pre-order charts (amazon (.com, .de, co.uk, .fr play.com, walmart, gamestop), despite having competition in the form of borderlands, l4d and da: o, so I don't think they are too woried about the game doing well on the pc tbmfh

Just similar as COD4's. There isn't much graphical improvement so thats to be expected. Doesn't matter as I doubt PC sales will even reach one million in the first few months.

"If they seriously want this game to do well on the PC"

well the game is preaty much topping all pre-order charts (amazon (.com, .de, co.uk, .fr play.com, walmart, gamestop), despite having competition in the form of borderlands, l4d and da: o, so I don't think they are too woried about the game doing well on the pc tbmfh

Enosh88

Just similar as COD4's. There isn't much graphical improvement so thats to be expected. Doesn't matter as I doubt PC sales will even reach one million in the first few months.

Gamerz1569

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]Of couse they don't want it too high. That way they can make more money. Same goes for WoW. Enosh88

yes and? Since when is this a bad thing

The people buying the game now are the people who won't be playing MP after 3 months-a year. So yeah, it will do well regardless in initial sales, but I'd wager a guess that it'll die out fairly quickly as the novelty of a new COD game wears off, and after the disaster that was COD5, it won't bode well for the next game they try to push. Things are looking up for Activision's COD series now, but you float a flop or two out the door and you need that hardcore fan base to be on your side if you ever want to claw your way back.denter21

you have no way of knowing that

just beacose the clans won't go fom MW1 to MW2 doens't mean there won't another competitive scene with new clans

matchmaking is in no way shape or form keeping back new clans from playing and there are still people, 2 years latter playing this on consoles just below halo 3, especialy if IW will realy organize tournaments etc like blizzard plans to do, I can see the game becoming very sucefull, if they do with IW.net what blizzard wants to do with battle.net, offer an equal quality of expiriance, provide comepetite gaming support etc

ofcourse there is no way to know it either way, so any predictions at this point are just "zomg I want the game to fail!!11" or "zomg I want the game to succed!!11"

and after the disaster that was COD5, denter21

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

Oh yes! I was so concerned about will I be able to run it on medium. Good job here, they bet on old, but gold ;)

[QUOTE="denter21"] and after the disaster that was COD5, Baranga

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

[QUOTE="denter21"] and after the disaster that was COD5, Baranga

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]Of couse they don't want it too high. That way they can make more money. Same goes for WoW. Enosh88

yes and? Since when is this a bad thing

it means more and more likely it will look poor visually compared to the status quo of today.. it will loosely resemble the graphics fram painkiller ressurection or killing floor

[QUOTE="Enosh88"]

[QUOTE="k0r3aN_pR1d3"]Of couse they don't want it too high. That way they can make more money. Same goes for WoW. aura_enchanted

yes and? Since when is this a bad thing

it means more and more likely it will look poor visually compared to the status quo of today.. it will loosely resemble the graphics fram painkiller ressurection or killing floor

The minimum requirements don't say anything about the visual quality of the maximum settings. HL2 supported DX6 cards and it was one of the best looking games in 2004.

16 gb of hard drive space. What on earth are they packing in there that could fill up that amount? COD 4 was just shy of 7gb on install. What is going on?nutcrackr

an extra five hours of gameplay?

Update: Direct from Activision, comes the official specs, which look a heck of a lot like the ones above... except for the 16 GB install. It's only 12 GB!

Higher quality assets.

Pretty much the same as previous, like expected, it's the same engine afterall.

[QUOTE="Baranga"]

[QUOTE="denter21"] and after the disaster that was COD5, the_ChEeSe_mAn2

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

you realize COD 4 has British SAS and american marines running around with Russian made weapons too right? Well then that's outright stupid.

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]16 gb of hard drive space. What on earth are they packing in there that could fill up that amount? COD 4 was just shy of 7gb on install. What is going on?mrbojangles25

an extra five hours of gameplay?

[QUOTE="denter21"] and after the disaster that was COD5, Baranga

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

Pretty low as expected, its a shame they don't update the game engine a bit more, whilst it still manages to look pretty it's still lacking in a number of areas.

Pretty low as expected, its a shame they don't update the game engine a bit more, whilst it still manages to look pretty it's still lacking in a number of areas.

sammysalsa

[QUOTE="sammysalsa"]

Pretty low as expected, its a shame they don't update the game engine a bit more, whilst it still manages to look pretty it's still lacking in a number of areas.

biggest_loser

Textures, AI, physics, Destructible/interactive environments, Effects - (smoke, particles, weather) etc

Btw COD 5 sold better than COD 4? Link to figures please because I do not believe that for one second.nutcrackr

Oh, comeon.

On June 3, 2008, Infinity Ward reported that Call of Duty 4 had sold over 10 million units.

As of June 2009, Call of Duty: World at War has sold over 11 million copies.

You'll find more links there!

And analists predicted that WaW will sell about 6 million copies...

Now you're going to add the extra year of COD4 sales that bring it to a total of 13 million?:P

[QUOTE="biggest_loser"][QUOTE="sammysalsa"]

Pretty low as expected, its a shame they don't update the game engine a bit more, whilst it still manages to look pretty it's still lacking in a number of areas.

sammysalsa

Textures, AI, physics, Destructible/interactive environments, Effects - (smoke, particles, weather) etc

[QUOTE="denter21"] and after the disaster that was COD5, Baranga

What disaster? It sold better than COD4, looked better, was gritty and violent, had an original setting for the series, had a sty1ish look, brought back the vehicles, had a good MP and the best campaign of any COD (the Soviet campaign).

Read the thread?

There are more modern or science fiction shooters than WW2 shooters. I guess it's cool to bash this specific era, just as it's cool to bash Treyarch and
Call of Duty.

i can see where alot of server owners would be upset. (clans as well)

i can see where i could be too, but i havent played the game so i cant fully judge it, i mean it isnt even out yet.

but as a musician i dont like my work to be dictated to me, so i dont really want to do that to the developers "art" as well.

so i have come up with a good system of choice here for myself.

1. since im not a server owner i wont boycott, and i will base "buying" decision purely on quality.

2. if the game doesnt lag much (despite no dedicated servers) then im ok on that. but ill have to see it first.

3. as long as there are a great number of gametypes, and MAPS, (i mean lots of maps, all sizes) and bunch of dlc ones too, that arent too expensive. (since there is no mod community to do it for free.)

if these are met then i might get it if it drops in price any.

should max it at 1680x1050 4xAA (50-60fps)

on my amd 6000+

4 gigs of ram

and dual 8800gt ocx sli.

especially after i upgrade cpu to amd phenom II 940 beginning of the year.

i can see where alot of server owners would be upset. (clans as well)

i can see where i could be too, but i havent played the game so i cant fully judge it, i mean it isnt even out yet.

but as a musician i dont like my work to be dictated to me, so i dont really want to do that to the developers "art" as well.

so i have come up with a good system of choice here for myself.

1. since im not a server owner i wont boycott, and i will base "buying" decision purely on quality.

2. if the game doesnt lag much (despite no dedicated servers) then im ok on that. but ill have to see it first.

3. as long as there are a great number of gametypes, and MAPS, (i mean lots of maps, all sizes) and bunch of dlc ones too, that arent too expensive. (since there is no mod community to do it for free.)

if these are met then i might get it if it drops in price any.

should max it at 1680x1050 4xAA (50-60fps)

on my amd 6000+

4 gigs of ram

and dual 8800gt ocx sli.

especially after i upgrade cpu to amd phenom II 940 beginning of the year.

Lach0121

Damn laptop of mine. :evil:

[QUOTE="Lach0121"]

i can see where alot of server owners would be upset. (clans as well)

i can see where i could be too, but i havent played the game so i cant fully judge it, i mean it isnt even out yet.

but as a musician i dont like my work to be dictated to me, so i dont really want to do that to the developers "art" as well.

so i have come up with a good system of choice here for myself.

1. since im not a server owner i wont boycott, and i will base "buying" decision purely on quality.

2. if the game doesnt lag much (despite no dedicated servers) then im ok on that. but ill have to see it first.

3. as long as there are a great number of gametypes, and MAPS, (i mean lots of maps, all sizes) and bunch of dlc ones too, that arent too expensive. (since there is no mod community to do it for free.)

if these are met then i might get it if it drops in price any.

should max it at 1680x1050 4xAA (50-60fps)

on my amd 6000+

4 gigs of ram

and dual 8800gt ocx sli.

especially after i upgrade cpu to amd phenom II 940 beginning of the year.

ProjectPat187

actually i max out cod4 at this rez, 4xaa, at 60fps...

so when i upgrade to the phenom II 940, ill get about a 10-20% increase in performance, which should put me pretty close to 60fps at max "holmes" lol

lol even if not, mid-next year (if) i decide to buy the game by then.. ill have me a new gtx 3## gpu, which will blow this game out of the water.

OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported- Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz- FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.....
Memory: 1 GB RAM 3.5 Gigs
Graphics: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better -x1950 xt
DirectX: Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB of free hard drive space- ~700 gigs
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Internet: Broadband connection required for Multiplayer Connectivity. Internet Connection required for activation -Fios

OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor or better supported- Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz- FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.....
Memory: 1 GB RAM 3.5 Gigs
Graphics: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600XT or better -x1950 xt
DirectX: Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c
Hard Drive: 12GB of free hard drive space- ~700 gigs
Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Internet: Broadband connection required for Multiplayer Connectivity. Internet Connection required for activation -Fios

scoots9

forget it I see it now, but yeah you need to buy a nice dual core^^ look up if you motherboard supports them first

personaly I am thinking of upgrading my internet from 1MB/256kb to 5MB/5MB, it's only 10€ more per month and I need it anyway so... ^^

those look almost the exact same as CoD4's requirements. Doesn't matter to me though, I will not be buying this piece of garbage.SF_KiLLaMaN

[QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"]those look almost the exact same as CoD4's requirements. Doesn't matter to me though, I will not be buying this piece of garbage.biggest_loser